Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>>>>> "José" == José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > José> On Sunday 13 August 2006 21:39, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>> Of course, what is missing here is the possibility of knowing >>> whether a format is handled. This is done by xdg-mime (except that >>> we do not have mime types for formats (but we should). > > José> How do you propose to do this? > > Well I'd rather bind to a proper library, but it seems that > the libray from the xdg people is not yet up to this. Georg had some > kde specific code, but it means linking against the full KDE shebang. > > So I do not propose much for now.
Using mimetypes for formats is something that should happen anyway. We would simply add the mime type as a format property. That would also make the kde-specific code more simple, and I guess it couldd be useful for OS X, too. Georg
